Peter Taylor - who was named interim Gillingham boss on Monday following the sacking of Ady Pennock - said he was pleased with his side's performance in the 0-0 draw against Scunthorpe United.

Taylor said that his team had to work hard to get the result, but he was encouraged with how they performed and is taking the positives.

“The performance could have been better, but there were still a lot of positives.

“The work that the players put in to get a result was all I could have asked for. We are very pleased with that.

“I am sure there are lots of things we can get better at, but if you look at Scunthorpe’s season and our season, it was a very difficult fixture and the players worked extremely hard to get a point. I thought we looked quite solid, which was encouraging.”

Following their 3-0 loss against Rochdale on Saturday, which led to Ady Pennock losing his job as Gills boss, Taylor asked for a response from his side against the Iron and believes that is just what he got.

Former Scunthorpe loanee Luke O’Neill left the game after just 16 minutes with an injury, which forced Taylor to change his sides shape to suit their available personnel. But Taylor was pleased with how his side reacted to the change and felt that his side could have even gone onto grab a goal to steal the three points.

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“We got that 100% from everyone,” he said.

“We started very well and the Luke O’Neill injury hurt us a little, because we had to change shape. We had to change it on the strength of what we had on the bench when Luke came off.

“I felt that messed us up a bit, then we didn’t have good spells at times, but they dug in and at times it looked as though we could get a goal.”

The former England interim manager stated that he knew that the Iron would not give his side much time on the ball and would provide a tough test, especially with their two strikers Tom Eaves and Conor Wilkinson unavailable for selection.

“I don’t think we had enough possession and I don’t think we have enough targets. I felt that we needed at least one big centre forward to help us.

“I said to the players, there was no Tom Eaves and no Conor, so we had to try and play better football. They have a good excuse when those two are playing upfront because they can knock it forward. They had to be a bit more caring.

“Scunthorpe are not going to give you much time to get the ball down and we had to be patient.”

After last night’s results, Gillingham have fallen to 22nd place in League One, whilst the Iron still currently sit in fifth after ten games.